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The Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery
By Dr. Jean M. Loftus, Plastic Surgeon
The Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery, written by Dr. Loftus, is the popular reference that many women have turned to for years to get objective and practical information on plastic surgery. It was released by McGraw-Hill-Contemporary Books in January 2000. Because of its popularity, McGraw-Hill asked Dr. Loftus to write and Updated Second Edition, which was released in December, 2007. That edition is now available on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com, as well as your local bookstore.
In this guide, Dr. Loftus explains the risks and benefits of every cosmetic plastic surgery procedure with unparallelled clarity, precision, and depth. She uses this platform to debunk myths and discredit unsound practices and illegitimate procedures. Written in an inviting and understandable style, this book has maintained its position among the best selling books in the Unites States on cosmetic surgery.
As an author, plastic surgeon, and patient advocate, Dr. Loftus has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, The View, the Today Show, and Later Today discussing all facets of cosmetic surgery.
Table of Contents for The Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery, Updated Second Edition:
1. Succeeding with Plastic Surgery: Ten Steps for the Best Outcome
2. Trading Faces: Face Lift
3. Raising Your Eyebrows: Forehead Lift
4. Rejuvenating Your Eyes: Eyelid Surgery
5. Refining Your Nose: Rhinoplasty
6. Bringing Out Your Chin and Cheeks: Facial Implants
7. Enlarging Your Breasts: Breast Augmentation
8. Enhancing Droopy Breasts: Breast Lift
9. Tightening Your Loose Body Skin: Tummy Tuck, Inner Thigh Lift, Outer Thigh and Buttock Lift, Body Lift and Arm Lift
10. Defining Body Contour and Smoothing Cellulite: Liposuction, Endermologie, and Mesotherapy
11. Simple Solutions for Aged and Sun-Damaged Skin:
Skin Care, Superficial Peels, Intense Pulsed Light, Fillers, and Botox
12. Serious solutions for Aged and Sun-Damaged Skin:
Medium and Deep Chemical Peels, Dermabrasion, and Laser Resurfacing, and Fraxel
13. Touching Up This and That: Spider Veins, Permanent Makeup, Unwanted Hair or Tattoos, and Thin Lips
Here's What Some of the Most Respected Plastic Surgeons said about this Book:
For those wishing to be well informed consumers of plastic surgery, this book will provide an outstanding learning resource. It is full of thorough, honest, understandable and accurate information about cosmetic surgery.
-Carolyn L. Kerrigan M.D.,President, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, 2007, Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School
Updated and expanded, this well written book remains preeminent in providing accurate and practical information to any woman contemplating cosmetic surgery.
-Robert M. Goldwyn, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Editor Emeritus, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
The second edition is up-to-date and includes assessments of new technologies including radio frequency, lasers, and ultrasonic devices. The writing is clear, concise, and objective. This information will help all potential cosmetic surgery patients.
-Luis O. Vasconez, M.D., Professor and Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
At a time when many people turn to reality television shows for information about cosmetic surgery, it is a relief that an excellent resource such as this exists. Unlike reality TV, it provides detailed, objective information without pitching or promoting.
-Peter Fodor, M.D., F.A.C.S., Past President, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
This is a clear, concise, well organized book that provides a great deal of essential information for women seeking plastic surgery. It is highly organized and makes for easy reading. I suspect that many people, both male and female, will want to learn from the wide array of useful data that this book provides.
-Ronald P. Gruber, M.D.,Plastic Surgeon, Oakland, California
This detailed and helpful book will be an asset to any patient considering plastic surgery.
-Richard A. D’Amico, M.D., F.A.C.S, President, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2008, Chief of Plastic Surgery, Englewood Hospital & Medical Center, Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
This book so clearly conveys the concepts of plastic surgery with such precision, insight, ethics, and conscience that it is a must to read.
-Lawrence B. Robbins, M.D., F.A.C.S., President and Chairman of the Board of The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 1997-1999
Dr. Loftus is uniquely suited to author this book. As a woman, she has insight into the minds of other women. As a plastic surgeon, she understands the procedures, their benefits, and their risks, as only a plastic surgeon can. As a writer, she can communicate each concept with unmatched clarity… Opening this book is the smartest thing you can do.
-Henry W. Neale, M.D., Chairman of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1995-1996
A valuable and long needed book - not only for the lay public, but also the plastic surgeon, young and old.
-David G. Dibbell, M.D., Sr., Chairman of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin
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